Atari 2600 Emulator created inside Minecraft

Seth Bling is already known to build crazy things that run inside Minecraft. This week he surprised everybody once again when he presented a fully working Atari 2600 emulator running inside Minecraft.

The emulator is capable of reading and running Atari cartridges, which were also built using Minecraft binary blocks structure (dirt or stones). There are no controllers, and the emulator runs very slowly making impossible actually to play any game. The original 2600 would draw the screen at a rate of 60 frames per second; the Minecraft version will do the same at 60 frames every 4 hours!

The following video shows the technical details of the implementation, teaching interesting lessons on how the real hardware was built and worked – you can even see the CRT scanlines flying on screen and drawing the pixels of Donkey Kong!